- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2010 01:48:38 -0600
- To: Mark Birbeck <mark.birbeck@webbackplane.com>
- Cc: public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>
On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 00:06 +0000, Mark Birbeck wrote: > Hi Dan, > > Forgive me, but I don't quite follow what you're getting at. > > Are you saying that 'prefix' would have been better defined using > 'Name' from the XML 1.0 spec? No... I'm saying: the definition of Name in XML went from, roughly, "only prescribe characters" to "everything except disallowed characters". See http://cmsmcq.com/mib/?p=606 for some relevant commentary. And NCName in the XML namespaces spec is defined in terms of Name from XML. and CURIE is defined in terms of NCName from namespaces. I tried to find a relevant test case in http://www.w3.org/XML/Test/ but I got lost in the maze. XML and Namespaces got updated, but evidently that didn't complete until just after RDFa was cooked. > If so, I don't see how it could, since 'prefix' needs to be the > 'non-colon' version of 'Name', i.e., 'NCName'. This is only defined in > the XML Namespaces spec, as far as I know. > > But that might not be what you mean...have I missed what you're driving at? > > :) > > Regards, > > Mark -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/ gpg D3C2 887B 0F92 6005 C541 0875 0F91 96DE 6E52 C29E
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